Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “motherhood”
I’m guilty of it. In fact, it happened just the other day. My children were giddy and high on sugar from Valentine’s festivities, giggling and tussling with each other when I lost it. The giant, toddler-sized teddy bear balloon that my husband had just purchased for my daughter was suddenly popped… RIP giant teddy. Before I could think, in a …
Written by: Morgan Cooper As I sit snuggled in my favorite Alabama sweatshirt, a hot cup of creamer with a bit of coffee, my pup curled up beside me, the sunlight bringing the Cooper Cottage to life while also exposing a bit of dust in quite a few places, missing my hubby while he is away at work and counting …
I’m tired… but it’s a different kind of tired. Oh, I’ve been tired before. When I was fifteen, I could sleep until noon on the weekends because I was THAT tired. And in college, the fifteen-minute power nap was my bestie, and boy did I need that dear friend A LOT. And sure, in those early years of married bliss, …
Written by: Elisabeth Rigby Homeschooling my own kids? Psh, no big deal…easy-peasy. Hadn’t I gotten straight A’s in high school, even taking Physics and Pre-Calculus? Didn’t I graduate a semester early from Bible college with Honors? I went into homeschooling with a faith in God and a confidence in my own qualifications. The first week with my five-year-old was a …
Written by: Amy Olds I love how my son loves. His generous heart towards his teacher and classmates is so rewarding to see as a mother. As he was leaving class the other day, he was helping his classmate with her backpack. He then turned to me with an ear-to-ear smile and began running full speed in my direction. …
The noise is inescapable most days—the chatter and lights from the TV, the bings and rings from our phones, the coming and going, and the rushing this way and that… it’s all so much. Many days I tend to bury my heart and mind into the mindless, needless distractions while my poor kids suffer from half-here-mommy syndrome. I’m a stay-at-home …
Written by: Nicole Flower I have learned so much in the last seven years about being a girl mom. My hubby and I have been blessed with three beautiful daughters. Clara, our firstborn, is six, Luci, our middle child, is five, and Holland, our youngest, was just born on New Years day. Now if you had asked me seven years …
We don’t talk about it. Nobody warns anybody else about it. Maybe it’s pride or embarrassment or sheer fear of judgment that keeps us from speaking out about it. But it’s there, lurking along the outskirts of our hearts and minds—the post-holiday lull. For those of us who live far from family, this lull hits especially hard. It comes in …
Written by: Ashley Peavey 2 Corinthians 5:17 “ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” Have you ever gone through a day, a week, maybe even a month and thought to yourself, where has the time gone? Ever since having kids, that thought comes through my head far …
Written by: Ali Hallock This post has been a difficult one to write. Earlier this year, I resigned from the Mormon religion—a religion that has essentially shaped me and has been part of my life for almost 30 years. While it’s not fitting to go into any details for this particular post, for the sake of some kind of clarity, …